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Alan Ladd - what members say

Shane review by A customer from Suffolk

A great western 13 May 2004
...x film which brings together many classic themes in a surprisingly modern way. Alan Ladd excels as an enigmatic stranger who becomes the hero, a character copied by Cli... Read customer review

The Proud Rebel review by mikemovieman from ROCHDALE

The proud rebel 6 December 2007
...e time as the wonderful Big Country. There are good performances by the leads Alan Ladd and Olivia de Havilland.I think this film deserves to be shown in a pristine p[... Read customer review

The Glass Key review by A customer from Preston

An action-packed gathering of really good actors 5 December 2008
...An early scene featuring Alan Ladd in profile seemed to show him as really wooden. But he soon warmed up. Which is just as well, given the lively performances of Brian D... Read customer review

Alan Ladd - filmography

The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Starring: George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Alan Ladd
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Certificate:
George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes.

57% from 17 members
Currently unavailable

Hollywood - The Fabulous Era on DVD (1962)
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart
Director: Jack Haley, Marshall Flaum
Certificate:
1962 TV documentary hosted by Henry Fonda. archive foottage of many stars of Tinseltown's Golden Age.

50% from 12 members

Duel Of Champions (1961)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Franca Bettoia, Franco Fabrizi
Director: Ferdinando Baldi, Terence Young
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In this gladiator adventure, a Roman nobleman. Horatius (Alan Ladd) leads an Imperial Legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agreed on how to settle the war. Three valiant brothers are chosen from each side to fight one last fierce bloody ..read more »

23% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

The Proud Rebel on DVD (1958)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Olivia De Havilland
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Ladd plays a Southerner who after the Civil War heads north to search for a doctor to cure his mute son (played by Ladd's real son David). He falls for farmer in the process.

60% from 70 members

Saskatchewan on DVD (1954)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters
Director: Raoul Walsh
Certificate:
On their return from a hunting trip in the Canadian mountains, Mountie Thomas O'Rourke (Alan Ladd) and his Cree half brother Cajou (Jay Silverheels) stumble upon a burned out wagon train and its sole survivor, Grace Markey (Shelley Winters). Indian tensions are running high as the warring American ..read more »

28% from 6 members

The Red Beret on DVD (1953)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Harry Andrews
Director: Terence Young
Certificate:
Ladd stars as an American Army officer who resigns his commission after ordering a fellow officer to jump from a plane which is about to crash. Ladd manages to land the plane safely, but his friend dies when his chute fails to open. Determined to avoid life-or-death decisions, Ladd enlists in ..read more »

58% from 22 members

Shane on DVD (1953)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Director: George Stevens
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The simple story of a Wyoming range war is elevated to near-mythical status in producer/director George Stevens' Western classic Shane. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a mysterious drifter who rides into a tiny homesteading community and accepts the hospitality of a farming family. Patriarch ..read more »

73% from 2,961 members

My Favourite Brunette on DVD (1947)
Starring: Reginald Denny, Ann Doran, John Hoyt
Director: Elliott Nugent
Certificate:
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MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE, a spoof of the hardboiled detective genre. Hope plays a baby photographer who gets mixed up with gangsters after he pretends to be a private detective. Dorothy Lamour costars as the mysterious femme fatale, and horror legends Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney turn in hilariously ..read more »

60% from 365 members

The Blue Dahlia on DVD (1946)
Starring: Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Veronica lake
Director: George Marshall
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When a former pilot discovers that his unfaithful wife has been murdered, he is pursued by the police. In addition, a mysterious blonde woman has taken an interest in him.

69% from 644 members

The Glass Key on DVD (1942)
Starring: Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Veronica lake
Director: Stuart Heisler
Certificate:
A classic murder mystery, based on the the Dashiell Hammet novel and said to be the inspiration for Kurosawa's Yojimbo. When a corrupt politician is accused of murder, his assistant hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way.

66% from 384 members

This Gun For Hire on DVD (1942)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Veronica lake
Director: Frank Tuttle
Certificate:
In this classic film noir, tough-guy thriller, Alan Ladd plays Philip Raven, a double-crossed gunman who is out for revenge, with Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham, his platinum blond bombshell companion. A hired gun, Raven is kind to everyone but his targets, and when he kills an extortionist and ..read more »

71% from 417 members

Citizen Kane on DVD (1941)
Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris
Director: Orson Welles
Certificate:
CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film's protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard ..read more »

71% from 25,728 members

Alan Ladd facts

5 most recent films

The Carpetbaggers - 3.0 stars
Hollywood - The Fabulous Era - 2.5 stars
Duel Of Champions - 1.0 stars
The Proud Rebel - 3.0 stars
Saskatchewan - 1.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shane - 3.5 stars
This Gun For Hire - 3.5 stars
Citizen Kane - 3.5 stars
The Blue Dahlia - 3.5 stars
The Glass Key - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Duel Of Champions - 1.0 stars
Saskatchewan - 1.5 stars
Hollywood - The Fabulous Era - 2.5 stars
The Carpetbaggers - 3.0 stars
The Red Beret - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Louise Currie - 3 times - show films
Veronica Lake - 3 times - show films
Gino Corrado - 3 times - show films
George Coulouris - 3 times - show films
Veronica lake - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Orson Welles - 3 times - show films
Elliott Nugent - 2 times - show films
Terence Young - 2 times - show films
Jack Haley - 1 times - show films
Stuart Heisler - 1 times - show films